---
title: "John Colson (@jcole)"
description: "Rank #1462 of 2505 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/jcole
last-updated: 2026-10-27
---

# John Colson (@jcole)

Rank #1462 of 2505 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/jcole

## Standing

- Rank: #1462 of 2505
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 7.11B all time
- Cost: $3380.96 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 1725
- Tracking: 2026-08-05 to 2026-10-26

## How this tier was reached

Tier is a weighted score across the axes measured for you, so a strong axis offsets a weak one. Operator needs a higher combined score, and cost also caps the tier on its own.
Scored on 4 axes, measured over the trailing 30 days.

| Axis | Current | Needed | Met | Measures |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| width | 1.0 | 3.1 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 1.7M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| sustain | 30 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $127.66 | <= $315.60 | yes | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **thirty** (level 1 of 3) at 30, earned 2026-10-09
- **two-hands** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-10-09

## Milestones

- sessions: 1.0K
- spend: 1.0K
- tokens: 1.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 60
- Busiest day: 2026-09-22 at 773.8M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 3.49B | $1465.47 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 1.62B | $1319.90 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 1.43B | $435.35 |
| claude | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 333.7M | $78.55 |
| claude | claude-haiku-5-5 | 195.8M | $48.02 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5-5 | 34.1M | $29.85 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-8 | 1.4M | $3.82 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 92.7K
- Cached input: 6.85B
- Cache write 5m: 153.1M
- Cache write 1h: 82.6M
- Output: 26.1M
- Reasoning output: 10.7M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/jcole